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I really like the guide but for me this wasn’t so much a power weapon guide. As @brennon said it seem far more like a demonweapon guide. Chaos guys having this no worries not so much marines. I wonder however if you used the same techiques in blue if I would be saying the same thing? Ethier way great guide but I guess thats the great thing about artistic vision everyones is different and coming at from a different angel can make something so much better.

As a matter of fact, you can use the very same technique with whatever color you fancy…
and I indeed used it with prussian blue in my Grey Knight Terminator tutorial (still waiting to get rerun). It goes for with Space Wolves as well… I’ve also had excellent results with green, on a completely unrelated figure.

As for artistic diffrences with Games Workshop… Why is purple suddenly a Chaos color ? I believe there were plenty of SM chapters in all sorts of colors in the 90’s, including pink and mauve… They’ve been studiously expunged from the main codices, just like black-skinned marines apparently. Is it bigotry, or is it just that “pink is for girls” and the whole “aquila” thing is very… well, Godwinesque, you know what I mean… ?

Who cares. I like purple, and it looks absolutely dashing for energy weapons. Artistic visions indeed !

I would say it has to do with the connection with blue being used to show electricity ergo power in these weapons.

Also I think it has less to do with purple being chaos as with purple being mystical. Not being found often in nature at all, purple has a mystic about it that blue does not.
Oh an pink is for boys it was for a very very long time long before blue because pink comes from red and it was blue that was for girls the cross over happened what some 80 years ago or so? I will have to watch IQ again to remeber, Well there is nothing wrong with watching anything with Stephen Fry again is there?
I don’t think so much Godwinesque but simply more about connections what is believed to be one side or the other.

@elromanozo Using alot of the techniques you have taught (not this one although I’ve said in an earlier post where I will be using this) I entered a painting competition a few weeks ago and ended up coming 3rd! This has boosted my confidence of painting up as normally painting isn’t the mot exciting thing for me but it’s becoming more fun and more fun. Again, thanks.

Great vid Romain, i have a skaven assassin with three blades that I want a cool finish on. This would work well for warp stone tainted blades I think. A hint of green in there and that might be the look I’ve been after 🙂

On a different note, is there anywhere on the site detailing the White undercoating over black I have seen on the dark angel I think? It looks like you use the White to enhance the vibrancy of the paint in direct light maybe?

I’ve shot a tutorial about basecoating in my special way, it’s sitting in the BoW vault… And I wish someone would edit and publish it so I everyone can see how it’s done, instead of me having to explain it all the time…
It’s not your fault, @darkdreams, it’s an excellent question !
The procedure is briefly explained in my Grey Knight tutorial and in my Mage Hunter tutorial, as well as in comments in both of those.
I simply spray black everywhere, in a fine but quite covering coat, then I spray grey on the raised areas, and, finally, I spray white just on top of the miniature, where the light comes from. That way, I’ve pre-shaded the miniature.

a quick question about your palette Romain. I’ve started using your suggestion of sponge+oven paper, but i dont seem to be able to get the paper saturated in the same way as your’s seems to be. since talking to my wife she informs me there is more than one type of oven paper so what type do you use?